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Brian De Palma’s skill as a director is matched by his glorious bad taste. Several filmmakers have had the gall to mine laughs out of serial killer mat... Read more »

The last De Palma film to not receive a theatrical outing in the UK was 2002’s feverish noir Femme Fatale. With Passion making its debut on t... Read more »

The Crash Reel, Lucy Walker’s compelling new documentary, has it all: sports rivalry, You’ve Been Framed-style carnage, family drama, a... Read more »

‘DANGER,’ reads the sign outside an abandoned quarry in the Lake District, ‘KEEP OUT.’ It’s good advice, for inside that mine d... Read more »

“Small venues are the lifeblood of British music.” So says Radiohead’s Phil Selway, one of a number of musicians supporting the inaugural I... Read more »

Cinema loves myths, and cinema-fans love the idea of the mythical film – the notion that great works of art are languishing in the Hollywood archives o... Read more »

It’s a couple of days after the Goyas, Spain’s national film awards, and Mexican director Diego Quemada-Díez is in a downbeat mood. His fi... Read more »

A cacophony of laughter echoes around the downstairs bar of a flash Glasgow hotel. It’s early evening, but it seems a girls’ night is in full swi... Read more »

It’s suburban Sweden, 1982, and punk is dead. Two 13-year-old outsiders, Bobo (Barkhammar) and Klara (Grosin), are feeling the loss more than most. Und... Read more »

If you happened to be in Sheffield between 7 and 12 June, one thing is certain: you were aware that Doc/Fest, the UK’s largest celebration of documenta... Read more »

In My Bed’s structure is dazzling. Set in and around the bed belonging to Sarah (Olivia Sweeney), we flash backwards and forwards through a relationshi... Read more »

A working men’s club in Govan, Glasgow, July 2012. The decor is 70s wood-panelling chic and threadbare carpet. It’s late afternoon and a dozen or... Read more »

“I was in the university library and I saw this guy across from me – he was chatting up this girl and pointing to the pictures in a book.” ... Read more »

The Early Starters Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have notoriously short memories; when casting their Oscar ballots they tend to... Read more »

Whiplash, the second feature from American filmmaker Damien Chazelle, should come with a stringent warning to overprotective parents. Not for its sexual cont... Read more »

Lili loves Hagen, but Lili’s father disapproves. He kicks Hagen out on to the streets of Budapest, where he’s used and abused and thrown in the s... Read more »

It’s a crisp February afternoon in Edinburgh and Will Anderson is showing The Skinny around fellow animator Ainslie Henderson’s compact Summerhal... Read more »

Peter Bogdanovich’s movies come marinaded in his love of Hollywood's Golden Age. In this dizzy soufflé he’s channelling Lubitsch, Sturges ... Read more »

Walter Hill is speaking to The Skinny from a cupboard in his LA home. “My wife’s given me this little broom closet to do my work in. Only a direc... Read more »

The film world needs no excuse to celebrate the work of Orson Welles. But the filmmaker would have turned 100 this year, so there are more opportunities than... Read more »

Before the multicultural X-Men and the superhero supergroup Avengers there were the Fantastic Four, the brainiacs of the Marvel universe. Their leader R... Read more »

England-born, US-raised Iranian filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour has a tip for any immigrant alighting upon the shores of her adopted homeland: “You come to... Read more »

The nerd Here we have the easiest to spot of the movie tribes; they wear their hearts on their sleeves – or, to be more accurate, they wear the insign... Read more »

Scotish Cinema at Filmhouse Bill Patterson in Comfort and Joy Us Scots aren’t great at celebrating our own cinema, so it’s pleasing to see Film... Read more »

King mischief-maker Louis Theroux opens his My Scientology Movie by saying it’s his “dream to see a more positive side of the church.” It ... Read more »

The Southside Film Festival, now in its fifth year, was a pop-up long before pop-ups were all the rage. Its appropriation of non-cinema spaces has become its... Read more »

Irish writer-director Lenny Abrahamson is known for his small-scale, dryly funny films, but he's come under a new level of scrutiny with his latest movie Roo... Read more »

First time director Lorenzo Vigas's From Afar is a gritty and cinematic study in desire and repression, set on the mean streets of Caracas, Venezuela From A... Read more »

Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, based on Emma Donoghue's best-selling novel, is a beautiful and humane response to inhumanity Joy (Brie Larson... Read more »

Livewire filmmaker Danny Boyle on working with Michael Fassbender, making Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs script cinematic and the long-awaited Trainspotting 2 Da... Read more »